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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 663: THE WOMAN, THE DRAGON AND BLACK MADNESS The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka #PambazukaNews Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Obituaries /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features GENESIS OF THE CRISIS IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Babette Zoumara and Abdul-Rauf Ibrahim Last week's appointment of Catherine Samba Panza as CAR's transitional president, the third female head of state in Africa, raises a glimmer of hope that this troubled nation at the heart of the continent could finally end its long history of coups, political violence, ethnic-based exclusion and grinding poverty http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90348 ****** TRADING WITH CHINA: HOW THE IGBO CLOTH TRADERS IN THE LAGOS ISLAND MARKET SCALE THE INTRICATE HURDLES Kenneth Okpomo Imports of Chinese clothes into Nigeria has led to environmental pollution and poor health for Chinese factory workers who make these goods. It has also led to corruption amongst Nigerian customs officials, infringement of patents, and the domination of the trade by Igbo cloth traders in Lagos http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90345 ****** TANZANIA BECOMING THE NEW CHINESE PROVINCE IN AFRICA Daniel Mbega Tanzania's strong relations with China go back to the era of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and Mao Tse Tung. The Chinese 'Dragon' is now set to invest billions of dollars in the iron and coal mining sectors of the country that will last for more than a century http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90344 ****** CHINA AND JAPAN IN AFRICA: WHO IS SEEKING 'AFRICA'S INTERESTS' FIRST? Antoine Roger Lokongo Africa was seen by Leopold II as a 'magnificent African cake' and still is considered as such by new foreign interests. Between the Chinese and the Japanese it seems the Japanese, like the West, seeks to 'contain' China's influence in Africa. The Chinese aspire to a win-win-South-South cooperation and the restoration of Asia and Africa's dignity http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90346 ****** A RAILWAY LINE IN THE SOUTH: 40 YEARS AFTER TAZARA Daniel Mbega Southern Tanzania's coal and gas-rich region which is part of the Mtwara Development Corridor is to see the construction of a new railway line from Mtwara to Mbamba-Bay. There are huge hopes that this new Chinese built railway - 40 years after TAZARA, will foster economic development in the region http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90347 ****** INFRASTRUCTURE 'FAST-TRACK' MAY TRIP UP GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATIONS Patrick Bond The ruling elite in South Africa combines the worst aspects of apartheid and post-apartheid nationalism with pro-corporate neoliberalism. Public interest and participation in the nation's moneyed politics is purely tokenistic http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90351 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements LGBTI IN AFRICA: A CALL FOR ARTICLES In February, Pambazuka News plans to carry a special issue dedicated to the LGBTI situation in Africa. Send in your contribution http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/90255 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis SOUTH SUDAN MUST OVERCOME ITS MILITARIZED ELITES Hala Al-Karib Through the years, the discourse about South Sudan has merely focused on power, wealth and armed conflict. The issues of identity, citizenship, unity and constructing the social fabric of the country have never been part of the conversation http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90352 ****** KIIR'S GOVERNMENT SHOULD FOSTER PEACE AND STABILITY IN SOUTH SUDAN Agook Mayek Riak President Kiir has several times in the past pledged not to take South Sudan back to war. He needs to demonstrate this now by doing everything in is power to end the current bloody crisis http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90357 ****** WHY I'M A MOROCCAN STANDING WITH THE SAHRAWI PEOPLE Nadir Bouhmouch It is been a long journey of personal reflection and discovery for the Moroccan filmmaker and human rights activist who now rejects and campaigns openly against his country's unlawful and brutal occupation of Western Sahara, Africa's last colony http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90356 ****** RWANDA'S PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS: A POISONED PILL THAT BLACKMAILS THE WEST Theogene Rudasingwa Rwanda's leader uses UN peace missions to maintain the dictatorship in Kigali and to enhance his formidable global financial and criminal network that liquidates his opponents http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90354 ****** DEMONIZING ETHIOPIAN HISTORY Alemayehu G. Mariam The regime in power in Ethiopia today is orchestrating a full-court press demonization and vilification campaign against Atse Menelik II, the Nineteenth Century Ethiopian emperor whose centennial is being celebrated this year (Ethiopian calendar) http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90350 ****** CORRUPTION IN SOUTH AFRICA: A TALE OF BLACK POLITICAL ELITES AND WHITE ECONOMIC ELITES Deniz Kellecioglu When South Africa became democratic and political equality was adopted, little was done for economic equality. That mainly benefitted the already powerful whites. Economic liberalisation coupled with inequality and capitalist competition have engendered massive corruption http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90353 ****** BLACK MADNESS UNDER OBAMA African Americans more pro-NSA, anti-Snowden than whites and Hispanics Glen Ford A new poll shows "Blacks remain more NSA spy-friendly than whites and Hispanics." Earlier surveys showed Blacks were the ethnic group most willing to go along with Obama's threatened air war against Syria. What happened to Black progressivism? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90355 ****** SYRIA PEACE CONFERENCE: THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S ORWELLIAN SUBTERFUGE Ajamu Baraka It is difficult to call the recent gathering in Montreux, Switzerland, a 'peace conference' on Syria, since the U.S. and its allies are determined to change the regime by force of arms. Washington has forged an 'unholy alliance with its 'Wahhabi allies from Saudi Arabia and al-Qaeda,' who act as America's 'boots on the ground.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90349 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns CRISIS IN MOTHOTLUNG, ANC HIT SQUAD AND EMPTY PROMISES The hype around the ANC manifesto launch on the Sat 11th January had hardly died down when a mere two days later three protestors lay dead in the streets of Mothotlung http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/90359 ****** HAITI: CHRISTIAN AID CALLS FOR END OF SECRECY OVER MINING OF £12BN MINERALS Concern is growing at the secrecy surrounding deals struck between Haitian government and US and Canadian mining companies over the country's estimated £12bn gold, silver and copper deposits http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/90358 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Obituaries BISHOP LESAOANA CALEB MAKANDA: FREEDOM FIGHTER, DIPLOMAT AND PROPHET Motsoko Pheko The measure of a man is not how he died, but how he lived his life. 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